Sabah quake: Two Singaporeans missing confirmed dead - Police

Sabah Police today confirmed that two Singaporeans missing on Mount Kinabalu after last Friday's earthquake in Sabah have died.

Sabah Police Commissioner Datuk Jalaluddin Abdul Rahman said the body parts of Navdeep Singh Jayrol s/o Raj Kumar, 13 and Mohamad Ghazi Mohammed, 35, had been identified by the Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) teams from Malaysia and Singapore.

Their remains would be handed over to the families once the DNA tests had been completed, he told a news conference at the Sabah Police headquarters here.

"The families have sent over blood and tissue samples which we have sent to the Chemistry Department for verification," he said.

Altogether, 18 people, 15 mountain climbers and three guides, were killed when the 6.0-magnitude earthquake rocked the Ranau and Kundasang areas at 7.15am last Friday and sent rocks and boulders crashing down Mount Kinabalu, Southeast Asia's highest peak at 4,101 metres.